Paramount takes on Red Rising, True Detective firms up its leads, record labels seek DistroKid’s AI-music data and weekend box-office forecasts develop. Plus ten more headlines from across the trades—all in one place.

In this briefing

• Red Rising at Paramount
• True Detective Season Five
• Labels Seek DistroKid AI Data
• Updated Box-Office Estimates

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Reporting cutoff: October 16, 6:16 p.m. Eastern / 3:16 p.m. Pacific.

Original reporting

• Francis Lawrence, Paramount Team for ‘Red Rising’ Movie Adaptation (Exclusive)
• ‘True Detective’ Season 5: Antonio Banderas Joins Nicolas Cage as Series Set to Film in 2027
• Universal Music and Sony Want to Know How Many AI-Generated Songs DistroKid Releases
• ‘Street Fighter’ Punches $4M In U.S. Previews, ‘You Can See Everything’ Near $2M – Friday AM Box Office Update
• Julie Plec Rally ordered at Prime Video with Andre Agassi producing
• ‘The Julia Set,’ Starring Chase Infiniti, Lands at Sony Pictures Classics Following TIFF Premiere
• A.F. Steadman TimeLess eyed by Amazon MGM, UA and Heyday
• Cineverse Boards Genre-Bending Holiday Film ‘Ralph’s Perfekt Christmas’
• Jinko Gotoh Succeeding Marge Dean As President Of WIA
• ‘Gaydar’ Host Anania to Launch Variety Show on Tubi (EXCLUSIVE)
• Daylight Adds Deuxmoi Podcast Deux U To Network
• Daniel Ings & Stephanie Beatriz Join Amazon MGM Horror Flick ‘Summoner’
• Rory Culkin and More Join Aldis Hodge-Wunmi Mosaku Thriller ‘One Night Out’ for Orion (Exclusive)
• Nicole Wallace Signs With UTA
• Box Office: ‘Street Fighter’ Makes $4 Million in Previews, ‘You Can See Everything’ Behind With $1.75 Million

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